Atlantic Avenue & Columbia Street

Atlantic Avenue and Columbia Street meet at a three-way junction in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Between 2021 and 2025, three police-reported crashes were recorded here, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run is 290 feet away. The nearest bus stop, Columbia St/Atlantic Av, is 110 feet away for the B61, and three bus routes stop within a ten-minute walk. Within a five-minute walk are 16 public places, three of them day care or pre-K sites, and 20 places to eat.

Safety record
Nobody hurt
3 police-reported crashes, 2021–2025
Nearest highway entrance
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
170 feet by car along the streets
Nearest bus stop
110 feet
Columbia St/Atlantic Av · B61
Within a walk
16 places
3 day care or pre-K sites, 3 parks and 8 more kinds, within five minutes

Map

Layers
Atlantic Avenue & Columbia Street Nearby corners, linked

Getting there

How walks are measured

Bus

The nearest bus stop is Columbia St/Atlantic Av, 110 feet away, for the B61.

  • 3 routes within a ten-minute walk
  1. Columbia St/Atlantic Av B61
    110 feet
    B61

Next buses at this stop

  1. B61 …

Live arrivals

Cycling

  • 15 bicycle racks within 820 feet
  • 2 more bike-share stations within a five-minute walk

Nearest bike-share station

  1. Atlantic Ave & Furman St 55 docks in all
    160 feet

By car

The nearest highway entrance is the ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway eastbound at Atlantic Avenue & Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, 170 feet by car along the streets.

  1. 69 Rapelye Street Gas station
    0.8 miles
  2. 335 Adams Street Charging for electric cars, six Level 2 chargers
    0.8 miles

Safety record

How crashes are counted

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported three crashes at this corner, fewer than the median of seven crashes for a Brooklyn corner. Nobody was hurt.

The most recent crash recorded here was in June 2021.

What the city has done here

  • Accessible pedestrian signal, September 2025

About this corner

Where facts come from
ZIP code
11201
Community board
Brooklyn Community Board 6
City Council district
33 and 39 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Police precinct
76 and 84 (the boundary runs through this corner)
Neighborhood (City Planning area)
Brooklyn Heights
Elevation
16 feet above sea level

The streets

  • Up to four travel lanes
  • A designated truck route

Homes

About 1,400 homes stand within 820 feet of this corner, most of them in buildings of ten homes or more. The buildings holding them mostly went up between 1890 and 1928.

Trees

NYC Parks records 106 trees within 330 feet; the most common is the London planetree.

Parking on the streets meeting here

How signs are read
  • 11 signs on these blocks
  • 4 different rules

The sign wording is DOT's, as recorded between March 2020 and July 2023, and the sign on the street decides.

South side of Atlantic Avenue

  • No standing 2 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME
  • No stopping 2 signs NO STOPPING ANYTIME

East side of Columbia Street

  • No standing 3 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

West side of Columbia Street

  • No standing 4 signs NO STANDING ANYTIME

Landmarks and historic districts

Within 820 feet, 160 buildings are designated by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, recorded most often as Greek Revival, and mostly built between 1847 and 1890.

  1. 1st Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn Designated landmark
    580 feet

Schools, parks and places within a walk

How places are listed

Sixteen public places are within a five-minute walk.

  • 3 day care or pre-K sites
  • 3 parks
  • 3 playgrounds
  • 1 college
  • 1 dog run
  • 5 other places

Schools and child care

  1. Kinder Prep Childcare 2 Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    480 feet
  2. MS Lam Montessori School
    610 feet
  3. Long Island Coll Hosp Sch of Nrsing College
    800 feet
Show all 5
  1. Kinder Prep Childcare and Enrichment Center Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5
    820 feet
  2. Kindercare Education Infant, toddler and preschool care, ages 0 to 5 · Pre-K
    1,050 feet

Parks, playgrounds and gardens

  1. Adam Yauch Park
    50 feet
  2. Van Voorhees Playground
    90 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park
    250 feet
Show all 7
  1. Adam Yauch Playground Dog Run
    290 feet
  2. Adam Yauch Park Playground
    300 feet
  3. Brooklyn Bridge Park Zone 6 Playground
    410 feet
  4. Brooklyn Heights Promenade
    1,150 feet

Health care

  1. NYU Langone Hospital - Joseph S. and Diane H. Steinberg Ambulatory Care Center Hospital
    800 feet

Libraries, museums and history

  1. Atlantic Avenue Tunnel Listed historic place
    1,270 feet

Fire and police

  1. Engine 224 Fire station
    1,310 feet

Supermarkets

  1. Key Food Supermarket
    0.3 miles
  2. Trader Joe's Supermarket
    0.4 miles

Pharmacies

  1. Walgreens Pharmacy
    0.4 miles
  2. CVS Pharmacy
    0.5 miles

Other places

  1. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 6 Ferry Landing
    700 feet

Food stores and places to eat

Within a five-minute walk there are 20 places to eat and three food stores.

Not on record for this corner: a subway entrance within a ten-minute walk.

Nearby corners

The eight nearest of the 14 corners within a three-minute walk:

See every intersection along Atlantic Avenue or Columbia Street.

Sources: NYC Technology and Innovation, NYPD, NYC DOT, MTA, New York City's bike-share system, NYS Environmental Conservation, NYC City Planning, US Department of Energy, NYC Housing Preservation and Development, Landmarks Preservation Commission, NYC Parks, NYC Health, NYS Agriculture and Markets and USDA, retrieved September 18 – October 6, 2026.